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EPISODE · Nov 9, 2018 · 44 MIN

E2: Massive Attack + Rosanne Cash + the night Johnny Thunders died

from Rock's Backpages · host Barney Hoskyns, Mark Pringle, Jasper Murison-Bowie

"Massive Attack [...] bores me to tears", says Mark Pringle ahead of their 20th-anniversary tour of Mezzanine. Following some discussion of the Bristol Scene, he and Barney Hoskyns consider this week's featured writer Terry Staunton. They then present an excerpt from a 2014 interview with Roseanne Cash in which she talks to Adam Sweeting about revisiting the south of the USA, which plays at the end of the podcast. Talk then turns to Joan Baez, Steve Marriott of The Small Faces and Marianne Faithfull, the latter of which turns out to be the starting point for a conversation about addiction and drug abuse, further fuelled by Susin Shapiro's withering review of Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers. Produced by Jasper Murison-Bowie Pieces discussed: Massive Attack and their album Mezzanine, Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser, Rosanne Cash, Joan Baez,  The Small Faces' Steve Marriott, Marianne Faithfull, Geoffrey Cannon on the arts in society, Kraftwerk, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, Suede, Nine Inch Nails, Fictitious bands from films, Lydia Lunch, Cherry Vanilla and a YouTube interview between Nick Cave and Marianne Faithfull

"Massive Attack [...] bores me to tears", says Mark Pringle ahead of their 20th-anniversary tour of Mezzanine. Following some discussion of the Bristol Scene, he and Barney Hoskyns consider this week's featured writer Terry Staunton. They then present an excerpt from a 2014 interview with Roseanne Cash in which she talks to Adam Sweeting about revisiting the south of the USA, which plays at the end of the podcast. Talk then turns to Joan Baez, Steve Marriott of The Small Faces and Marianne Faithfull, the latter of which turns out to be the starting point for a conversation about addiction and drug abuse, further fuelled by Susin Shapiro's withering review of Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers. Produced by Jasper Murison-Bowie Pieces discussed: Massive Attack and their album Mezzanine, Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser, Rosanne Cash, Joan Baez,  The Small Faces' Steve Marriott, Marianne Faithfull, Geoffrey Cannon on the arts in society, Kraftwerk, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, Suede, Nine Inch Nails, Fictitious bands from films, Lydia Lunch, Cherry Vanilla and a YouTube interview between Nick Cave and Marianne Faithfull

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